Nile Notes of a HowadjiHarper & brothers, 1856 - 320 страница |
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... Egyptians had the Jewish and Mohammedan horror of swine . The swine - herds were a separate race , like the headsmen of some modern lands , and married among them- 3 selves . Herodotus knows , as usual , why swine 26 NILE NOTES .
... Egyptians had the Jewish and Mohammedan horror of swine . The swine - herds were a separate race , like the headsmen of some modern lands , and married among them- 3 selves . Herodotus knows , as usual , why swine 26 NILE NOTES .
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... race just better than the brutes . If a poet could translate into sound the expression of a fine dog's face , or that of a meditative cow , the Howadji would fancy that he heard Nile music . For , after all , that placid and perfect ...
... race just better than the brutes . If a poet could translate into sound the expression of a fine dog's face , or that of a meditative cow , the Howadji would fancy that he heard Nile music . For , after all , that placid and perfect ...
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... race . But a leading race never degener- ates , so long as faculty remains The Egyptians and Easterns are not savages , they are imbeciles . It is the English fashion to laud the Orient , and to prophecy a renewed grandeur , as if the ...
... race . But a leading race never degener- ates , so long as faculty remains The Egyptians and Easterns are not savages , they are imbeciles . It is the English fashion to laud the Orient , and to prophecy a renewed grandeur , as if the ...
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... of the grain - green plain . sphinx sits upon the No scenery is grand- er in its impression , for none is so symbolical . The land seems to have died with the race that made it famous - it is so solemnly still . Day THE LANDSCAPE,
... of the grain - green plain . sphinx sits upon the No scenery is grand- er in its impression , for none is so symbolical . The land seems to have died with the race that made it famous - it is so solemnly still . Day THE LANDSCAPE,
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... races of the equator , and enchant- ing stories of acres of lotus bloom in Ethiopia . It was not difficult to fancy that we ... race forever young . We sprang ashore for a ramble , and the Pacha took his gun for a little bird - murder ...
... races of the equator , and enchant- ing stories of acres of lotus bloom in Ethiopia . It was not difficult to fancy that we ... race forever young . We sprang ashore for a ramble , and the Pacha took his gun for a little bird - murder ...
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